Kevin Cooley

Kevin Cooley works with elemental forces of nature to question systems of knowledge as they relate to our perceptions and experience of everyday life. Using photography, video, and installation, he creates frameworks though which to observe experimental and performative gestures to decipher our complex, evolving relationships to nature, to technology, and ultimately to each other. Since 2014, Cooley has had solo exhibitions at the Catharine Clark Gallery, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Kopeikin Gallery, the Museum of Photographic Arts, The Nevada Museum of Art, Pierogi, RYAN LEE Gallery, the Savannah College of Art and Design, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. His work is represented in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 21c Museum, the Nelson-Atkins Museum, and the Museum of Photographic Arts. Additionally, he has received numerous awards including a juried award at Art Prize, a Foundation for Contemporary Art grant, an Experimental Television Center Grant., Aaron Siskand Foundation Grant, and a Rema Hort Mann Foundation. Cooley also maintains a collaborative practice with Phillip Andrew Lewis. They have held seven solo exhibitions since meeting while in residence at the Bemis Arts Center in 2013. Cooley lives and works in Los Angeles, California and Brooklyn, NY.